The Rosh Yeshiva

Inspiration from the life and teachings of the legendary Rosh Yeshiva and phenomenal marbitz Torah, Hagaon Harav Shmuel Rozovsky, zatzal During the most turbulent times in our recent history, when it appeared that the world of the great European yeshivos was about to be obliterated and the chain of their mesorah broken, a lion in Torah arose to fill the breach. This book tells the story of a true Torah giant, whose essence was Torah and without whom it is impossible to imagine the rebirth of the yeshivah world in our days. Born in Grodno, Poland, Harav Shmuel Rozovsky gained renown from an early age as a prodigious ilui. He was one of the most outstanding talmidim of Harav Shimon Shkop, whose Torah and derech halimud he strove all his life to transmit. Saved from the Nazi inferno, he was chosen by Harav Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman to become the first rosh yeshivahof his fledgling institution, the great Torah empire of Ponovezh. Rav Shmuel thus became the bridge between the glorious past of